Health and disease : a reader
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Health and disease : a reader
Open University Press, 1995
2nd ed
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The 62 articles in this reader represent the varied and controversial perspectives of the contributors - including academic researchers in the natural and social sciences and health-care professionals. The book also includes extracts from several "classic" texts written on this subject in the 20th century, five specially-commissioned articles and many articles which are not easily accessible elsewhere. The editors have grouped the articles under seven headings: concepts of health, disease and healing; experiencing health and disease; influences on health and disease; the role of medicine; the social context of health care; health work; and prospects and speculations. Each section has a short introduction, which draws the reader's attention to common themes and sharp discontinuities.
Table of Contents
- Part One Concepts of health, disease and healing: Mirage of Health
- The history of pernicious anaemia from 1822 to the present day
- Feed a cold, starve a fever
- What is health?
- Illness as metaphor
- Using alternative therapies
- The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine
- Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist
- Hysteria and demonic possession
- Protecting the vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body. Part Two Experiencing health and disease: The insanity of place
- Tangled feelings - an account of Alzheimer's disease
- The social impact of childhood asthma
- Coping with migraine
- Coming to terms with diabetes
- Living with HIV and AIDS
- Pride against prejudice: "Lives not worth living"
- The stigma of infertility
- Hard-earned lives - experiences of doctors and health care
- "Some bloody do-gooding cow". Part Three Influences on health and disease: Health - 1844
- Inequalities in health - ten years and little further on
- Depression - a sociological view
- Entitlement and deprivation
- Deaths under 50
- Malingering - Why must I be a teenager at all?
- A new division of the life course
- Prevention is better. Part Four The role of medicine: The medical contribution
- The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a reinterpretation of the role of public health
- Effectiveness and efficiency
- Ethical dilemmas in evaluation
- Assessment of screening for cancer
- The global eradication of smallpox
- The epidemics of modern medicine
- The mode of state intervention in the health sector
- Priority setting in the NHS. Part Five The social context of health care: The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom - similarities and differences
- Britain's health-care experiment
- Transferring power in health care
- The village health-worker - lackey or liberator
- Traditional Indian medicine in practice in an Indian metropolitan city
- A short cut to better services - day surgery in England and Wales. Part Six Health Work: Caring for the spouse who died
- We didn't want him to die on his own
- Truth, trust and paternalism
- Doctor knows best
- Second Report on Maternity Services
- Normal rubbish - deviant patients in casualty
- Food-work - maids in a hospital kitchen. Part Seven Prospects and speculations: The flesh
- What can be done about inequalities in health?
- A health-promotion primer for the 1990s
- Public-health heresy - a challenge to the purchasing orthodoxy
- The greening of medicine
- Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes
- The welfare man
- Exits
- The shadow of genetic injustice
- The evolution of Utopia
- The last well person.
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